A brutal murder, lots of suspects and conflicting evidence but the forensics were clear on one thing: The killer knew his victim. And that alone gave investigators a head start.
When a woman went missing, friends and family were determined to find her. Their worst fears were confirmed weeks later when her body was discovered.
Kathy Lorick was murdered on a Concord, California jogging trail while talking to her husband on her phone.
Volunteers and police spend weeks searching for a missing girl. A psychic later leads them to a field where the body was found.
When a college co-ed vanished without a trace, her fellow students were concerned about her safety and their own.
In 1969, phone operator Diane Maxwell is murdered. Her brother promised he'd find out who was responsible.
In 1996, Virginia Beach police arrive at the Makdessi apartment to find Elise Makdessi and her lover dead.
A surgeon is stabbed to death, and the most likely suspect is seen in a restaurant at the time of the murder.
When a dedicated, well-respected teacher disappeared, police had to determine if she'd gone on vacation without telling anyone, or if she was the victim of foul play.
In little more than a month, two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered.
A woman was shot to death in her Connecticut driveway. Now police must determine if love had turned deadly.
The body of a young girl was discovered on isolated farmland near Delano, California. She had no ID, but police found mailbox keys in the pocket of her jeans.
A Michigan State University grad student disappeared and was presumed dead. With the help of a professor of geological sciences, police hoped to get the "dirt" on her killer.
In 1997, Kelly Eckart's car was found, with her belongings still in it, after she worked a late shift in Franklin, Indiana. Days later, her body was found in an isolated ravine.
A man was killed in a car crash, but the evidence led investigators to believe it was not an accident.
When a woman went missing, friends and family were determined to find her. Their worst fears were confirmed weeks later when her body was discovered.
In 2003, Tiffany Rowell and three of her friends were brutally murdered in affluent Clear Lake, Texas.
In 1991, Dorothy Donovan was murdered in her Dover, Delaware home and police are skeptical when her son Charles Holden stated that she was murdered by a hitchhiker he had picked up.
In 2000, Judy Southern arrived home from work and was shot by a gunman waiting within. Her husband Allen arrived shortly afterwards, called 911 to report his wife had been shot.
In 2006, Texas real estate agent Sarah Anne Walker was found brutally murdered in a model home.